An Indonesian Hacker known with the handle of Dbuzz has hacked and defaced the official sub-domain of U.S. Department of State (http://ourplanet.infocentral.state.gov).
Defaced domain belongs to U.S. Department of State that is dedicated to environmental issues and known as ‘Global Conversations: Our Planet’. The U.S Department of State’s Our Planet domain is a resource hub for youth, activists and environmentalists which provides information on the environmental issues such as climate changes, earth quacks, forests, wild life and natural disasters etc.
Hacker left his deface page along with a message on the hacked U.S. Department of State’s ‘Our Planet’ domain. The short message was expressed in following words:
- Hacked by Dbuzz! Secure Your Box. Cheers To : Black Angels ~ pH4TH0rM0n ~ Pak RT!
Global Conversations: Our Planet has a Facebook page run by U.S. Department of State with 2.7 million likes and a verified Twitter handle with 21k+ followers.
Link of targeted domain along with its zone-h mirror can be found below:
http://ourplanet.infocentral.state.gov
http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/21044127
Dbuzz is an Indonesian hacker who had hacked and defaced official blog of US Embassy website yesterday. It seems that this hacked sub-domain was also hosted on the same server.
At the time of publishing this article, the site was offline and showing under maintenance message.
